Fahrney-Keedy Senior Living Community, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Fahrney-Keedy Senior Living Community at a glance
Fahrney-Keedy Senior Living Community serves about 250 people through 65 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Washington County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0210213; phone on file: 301-671-5017. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Fahrney-Keedy Senior Living Community's lead record
Against the period ending 2018 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fahrney-Keedy Senior Living Community is 1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Maryland systems
Of the 437 Maryland systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 21 have gone over at some point. Fahrney-Keedy Senior Living Community's 1 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Maryland and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Washington County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fahrney-Keedy Senior Living Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Hagerstown | 92,200 | 0.8 ppb |
| Boonsboro - Keedysville | 4,250 | 3.26 ppb |
| Town Of Smithsburg Distribution System | 2,500 | - |
| Town Of Williamsport Distribution System | 2,400 | - |
| Town Of Hancock | 1,921 | 2.38 ppb |
| Lakeside Village | 1,575 | - |
| Town Of Sharpsburg | 1,360 | 3.6 ppb |
| Town Of Funkstown Distribution System | 1,300 | - |
| Highfield | 1,141 | 3.86 ppb |
| Mount Aetna | 688 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Boonsboro, MD
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Boonsboro, MD may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Fahrney-Keedy Senior Living Community whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.